Bound with: Fest-Chronica. Erffordt : Johann Beck ; [Leipzig] : Jn Verlegung Henning Grossen, 1591

Binding: alum-tawed pigskin over beveled wooden boards; blind tooled with fillet panels, stamps and rools; spine with six raised bands; two metal claps on leather straps at fore-edge at lower board, corresponding post on upper; edges stained red; signed in red ink on title page: Johannes Auroldi (?) 1599

Pagination, volume 1: [16], 240 [i.e. 241], [1] pages; volume 2: [6], 102, [8], 34 [i.e. 36], [6], 24 [i.e. 29], [1] pages (the last blank)

Numerous errors in pagination

Title printed in red and black; initials; tail-pieces

Includes indexes

Final page blank

Preface by Martin Chemnitz; poems by Heinrich Meibom and Hermann Neuwaldt dedicated to Heinrich Bünting

The second part has special title page: Itinerarium Noui Testamenti, das ist, Ein Reisebuch uber das New Testament

The part on money and measures at the end of volume 2 has special title page: De monetis et mensurae Sacrae Scripturae, das ist, Ein eigentliche Ausrechnung vnd Beschreibung alle Müntze vnd Masse in Heiliger Schrift

The exegesis on Joshua in volume 2 (34 [i.e. 35] pages) has special title page: Uber das Buch Josua eine sehr nutze und schöne Erklerung, vnnd von der Ausstheilung des gelobten Landes Canaan, wie es vnter die zwölff Stemme Jsrael ausgetheilet ist worden

"De monetis et mensuris sacrae scripturae": volume 2, pages 1-24 [i.e. 29] (sixth series)

Largely based on Berhard Breydenbach's Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam

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